1552

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1520s 1530s 1540s – 1550s – 1560s 1570s 1580s
Years:	1549 1550 1551 – 1552 – 1553 1554 1555

1552 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1552 (MDLII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1552

January 15 – Henry II of France and Maurice of Saxony sign the Treaty of Chambord.
February 12 – Pedro de Valdivia founds the city of Valdivia as Santa María la Blanca de Valdivia in Chile.

February 24 – The privileges of the Hanseatic League are abolished in England.
March – The Act of Uniformity 1552 imposes the Protestant prayerbook in England.
March 26 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
April – War breaks out between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun.
April 16 – The city of La Imperial was founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
May – Maurice of Saxony captures Augsburg and almost seizes Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor at Innsbruck.

August 2
- John Frederick, Elector of Saxony and Philipp I of Hesse, taken prisoner by Charles V in 1546, are released.
- The Peace of Passau revokes the Augsburg Interim of 1548 and promises religious freedom to the Protestant princes.
October 2 – The Khanate of Kazan falls to troops of Ivan IV of Russia.
July– In Hungary, Drégely Castle is attacked by the Turks.
September – In Hungary, Eger is defended against the Turks the captain of the castle was István Dobó.

Eustachi.

In the Persian Gulf, the Ottoman Empire Red Sea Fleet attacks the Portuguese stronghold of Hormuz but fails to capture it.
Spain's Bartolomé de Las Casas publishes his attack on colonial practices in the New World, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.
In Italy, Bartolomeo Eustachi makes important discoveries on the structure of the ear and heart.
Christ's Hospital and Shrewsbury School are founded by Royal Charter of Edward VI.
The foundation of Leeds Grammar School

See also Category: 1552 births.

January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (b. 1479)
January 22 – Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1509)
February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German composer (b. 1500)
April 18 – John Leland, English historian (b. 1502)
June 10 – Alexander Barclay, British poet (b. 1476)
July 9 – György Szondy Hungarian soldier.
August 15 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
October 14 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
October 17 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
December 2 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1506)
December 20 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)
date unknown
- Sebastian Münster, German cartographer and cosmographer (b. 1488)
- Philippe Verdelot, French composer (b. 1475)
- Edward Edward Wotton, English zoologist (b. 1492)

See also Category: 1552 deaths.